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Urethane Game

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Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« on: December 08, 2011, 12:53:29 PM »
Any special steps or should I resurface as I would for any ball?
 
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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 12:54:39 AM »
Treat it as any other ball. If there are lots of scratches and wear start pretty coarse, maybe 220 grit, and then gradually smooth out and polish.
 
 


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Edited by notclay on 12/9/2011 at 1:55 AM
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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 01:10:50 AM »
For finishing you might - in the case of a polyester ball - also use car polishes with wax instead of "wasting" more expensive bowling ball polish or rubbing compound. The wax in car polish also adds slide up front. The higher the base grit underneath, the more "slippery" things turn out.


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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 06:56:54 AM »
Along the same lines, my plastic ball bites a little bit at the tail end in one of the drier houses I bowl at.  Will cleaning it give it some more slide?  I don't leave a bowling alley without thoroughly cleaning any reactive ball I use, but I never touch my plastic, so while it's not dinged up at all, it is a little grimy.  Thoughts?
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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 07:25:56 AM »
Cleaning won't change much on a polyester ball, IMO, and if you use polsihes with wax a thorough cleaner will actually take the wax away, bit by bit. Therefore, a hard coverstock material creates most length (I have a hard Ice Strorm and it defintively has less "traction" than standard polyester balls like a White Dot, Maxim, or T-Zone), and if you find some track building up on the pllsihed ball I'd give it a turn on the spinner with some polish for maintenance. The effect is not big, but IMO the best you can do, besides having a spare release without side rotation. This might be even more effective than worrying about the polyester ball's surface!


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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 09:30:32 AM »
 
Jaydee,
dizzy is correct. Just keep it polished.
Every polyester ball can turn with enough friction, so work on releasing it straight up the back of the ball (end-over-end) to protect against the ball "hooking" away from your 10 pin (or whatever pin it is giving you the challenge).
 


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Re: Recommended Method For Resurfacing Plastic
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 12:55:07 PM »
+1. I know I rolled it right when I hear the lope, lope lope over the finger holes.
 



notclay wrote on 12/9/2011 10:30 AM:

 

Jaydee,

dizzy is correct. Just keep it polished.

Every polyester ball can turn with enough friction, so work on releasing it straight up the back of the ball (end-over-end) to protect against the ball "hooking" away from your 10 pin (or whatever pin it is giving you the challenge).

 



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